Albert Camus Quotes
Algerian-French author and Absurdist philosopher.
(1913 - 1960)
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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A fate is not a punishment.
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
[Art]
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
[Art]
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
[Literature]
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A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
[Art]
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
[Age]
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
[Intellect]
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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